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RolStoppable said:
MasonADC said:

I’ve never held a N64 controller, is it really that bad?

It's a joke because there were really some people who didn't know how to hold the controller. What they did wrong was to grab the left and right handle for games that were supposed to be played with the middle and right one (the most common grip because most games were 3D). The analog stick and Z-button are hard to use when your left hand is in the wrong place.

As for the wear and tear of the analog stick, developers had to go through a learning experience. The new 360° freedom of an analog stick was used for quick and repeated full rotation (either clockwise or counter-clockwise) in a variety of games, and most notoriously the first Mario Party title. That control mechanism did a lot of damage to the stick and the lessons learned from that were that later games, including Mario Party ones, forfeited such input. This extended to later consoles as well, so you'll find hardly any games where you have to rotate a stick as fast as you possibly can.

I was one of those people that held the controller wrong lol.  Oddly enough, I got used to it and holding it right felt weird, so I actually got REALLY good at using it that way.



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